Valtteri Bottas won a chaotic season-opening Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday while Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton finished fourth after getting a late time penalty. Bottas took a knee as he received the winners' trophy and the podium trio held up a black T-shirt with "End Racism" written on it. The race was interrupted three times by a safety car and nine of 20 drivers abandoned, including both Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Alexander Albon  who tried to overtake Hamilton on the outside with 10 laps left, touched wheels and flew off track.

"I dodged a few bullets today," Bottas said after the eighth F1 win of his career. Hamilton was given a five-second time penalty for causing the collision - dropping from second to fourth - having earlier been hit with a three-place grid penalty after an incident in Saturday's qualifying was reviewed by stewards. Although Bottas started from pole position and Hamilton from fifth, it looked like a straight fight between the two Mercedes drivers as has been the case so often in recent years. But late drama in Spielberg ensured otherwise and Hamilton's time penalty meant Charles Leclerc took second place for Ferrari and Lando Norris third for McLaren.